How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?


Tony Judt

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The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son H...
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Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
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When you lose a game, you have three or four days to make amends, and we did so tonight.
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My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much...
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Without wealth creation and wealth generation, there cannot be a proper financing of the system of s...
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Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -p...
RASHEED OGUNLARU
I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
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I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
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So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.
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The first thing we did was make amends with environmentalists, ... That was a biggie.
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Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly onesel...
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I was more than obsessed. I was inside this guy's mind. There was so much material it would blow you...
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I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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There is a wealth of information out there for people raising children.
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I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
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The reality is that there should not be an impact. However, many of the material suppliers and subco...
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People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
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There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
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Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
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Begin to nurture yourself…Some grew up expecting their romantic partners to give them the nurturin...
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
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Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
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We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainl...
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We are born different to make a difference.
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Economically, unless we rejoin the international community and make amends with the countries we iso...
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
a man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.
CLAUDIA GRAY
It's not a problem. I don't know how many ways to say it. If you're going to write down the rules an...
KYLE MCSLARROW
Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your ...
DAN PEARCE
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation...
AZIM PREMJI
Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels,...
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D. H. LAWRENCE
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The one-day series is a chance for us to make amends for our disappointing performance in the final ...
RAHUL DRAVID
We should reveal God to this world with our wealth
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves ...
TONY SNOW
If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our com...
TONY CARDENAS
Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... ...
TONY HAWK
When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g...
TONY HAWK
You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games....
TONY HAWK
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other w...
TONY HAWK
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebel...
TONY HAWK
If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel lik...
TONY HAWK
Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have ...
TONY HAWK
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named...
TONY HAWK
My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses...
TONY HAWK
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowb...
TONY HAWK
I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.
TONY HAWK
The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, wor...
TONY HAWK
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t...
TONY HAWK
I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ...
TONY HAWK
If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more you...
TONY HAWK
Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution...
TONY HAWK
I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra...
TONY HAWK
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
TONY HAWK
If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play.
TONY HAWK
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
TONY ROBBINS
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident bec...
TONY JAA
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to ea...
TONY ROBBINS
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws l...
TONY HOARE
I've said all along that God is in control.
TONY DUNGY
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto othe...
TONY OLLER
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English ...
TONY HILLERMAN
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
TONY GILROY
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
TONY ROBBINS
Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect ...
TONY CARDENAS